FRIEZE in a Sentence

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1. The frieze rounds the top of the wall is delicate.
2. He wore a woman's loose gown of frieze, blue trousers, and large torn Hessian boots.
3. Only give orders for my little box to be taken there, and this garment, too, he added, taking off his frieze overcoat.

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 Meanings and Examples of FRIEZE
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frieze
 n.  architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice; heavy woolen fabric with a long nap
Classic Sentence:
1  Only give orders for my little box to be taken there, and this garment, too, he added, taking off his frieze overcoat.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  By the wall of China-Town a smaller group of people were gathered round a man in a frieze coat who held a paper in his hand.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIII
3  He wore a woman's loose gown of frieze, blue trousers, and large torn Hessian boots.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
4  The other in the frieze gown stopped in front of the beautiful Armenian girl and with his hands in his pockets stood staring at her, motionless and silent.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
5  Holmes bent over this grotesque frieze for some minutes, and then suddenly sprang to his feet with an exclamation of surprise and dismay.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Example Sentence:
1  The frieze rounds the top of the wall is delicate.